G/TBT/N/UGA/1857  
1 November 2023  
(23-7379) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UGANDA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Dried fish, 
salted, not smoked (excl. cod and other fillets) (HS code(s): 030559); Fish and fishery  
products (ICS code(s): 67.120.30); Dried sardine  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 
1110-1, Dried small sardine and sardine -type pelagic fish — Part 1: Freshwater, First 
Edition; (16 page(s), in English)  
6. Desc ription of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements and 
methods of test for dried small freshwater sardine and sardine -type pelagic fish of the 
species; Rastrineobola argentea, Rastrineobola sardella, Stolothrissa tanganicae , 
Limnothri ssa miodon , Poecilothrissa moeruensis and Engraulicypris bangweuluensis . 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements; 
Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. AOAC Official Method 999.10, Lead, cadmium, zinc, copper, and iron in foods — 
Atomic absorption spectrophotometry after microwave digestion  
2. AOAC Official Method 999.11, Lead, cadmium, copper, iron and zinc in foods — 
Atomic absorption spectrophotometry after dry ashing  G/TBT/N/UGA/1857  
 
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  3. AOAC Official Method 2015.01, Heavy metals in food — Inductively coupled 
plasma–mass spectrometry  
4. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
5. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
6. CAC/RCP 52[WD -ARS 1126:2022], Code of practice for fish and fishery products  
7. CODEX STAN 192, General standard f or food additives  
8. ISO 4831, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of coliforms — Most probable number 
technique  
9. ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coliforms — Colony -count technique  
10. ISO 4833, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of microorganisms — Colony -count technique at 30 degrees 
C 
11. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feed ing stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
12. ISO 6887 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Preparation of test 
samples, initial suspension and decimal dilutions for microbiological examination 
— Part 1: General rules f or the preparation of the initial suspension and decimal 
dilutions  
13. ISO 6887 -3, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Preparation of test 
samples, initial suspension and decimal dilutions for microbiological examination 
— Part 3: Specific rules f or the preparation of fish and fishery products  
14. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
15. ISO 6888 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 2: Technique using rabbit plasma fibrinogen agar 
medium 
16. ISO 6888 -3, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 3: Detection and MPN technique for low numbers  
17. ISO 7251, Microbiolog y of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
18. ISO 7937, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of C lostridium perfringens — Colony -count technique  
19. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High 
performance liquid chromatographic method  
20. ISO 16654, Mi crobiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Escherichia coli O157  
21. ISO 21567, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Shigella spp.  
22. ISO 21872 -1, Microbiology of food a nd animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of potentially enteropathogenic Vibrio spp. — Part 1: Detection 
of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio cholerae  G/TBT/N/UGA/1857  
 
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  23. ISO 21872 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of potentially enteropathogenic Vibrio spp. — Part 2: Detection 
of species other than Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio cholerae  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
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